Capt. Peter “Wrong Way” Peachfuzz was a supporting character on the animated television programs Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, now known collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show is an American animated television series that originally aired from November 19, 1959 to June 28, 1964 on the ABC and NBC television networks...

. He made his debut in Jet Fuel Formula

Jet Fuel Formula

Jet Fuel Formula is the first and the longest Rocky and Bullwinkle story arc. It is also noteworthy in that it established most of the characters, themes, running gags, and other elements that would be employed in later stories and that would become so closely identified with the...

, the first Rocky & Bullwinkle story arc

Story arc

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, originally broadcast late 1959 and early 1960.

According to the narration of Jet Fuel Formula, Peachfuzz was, from his youngest days, an incompetent sailor. As a child, even his toy boats sank. At the age of 18 he joined the navy. He was awarded numerous medals, all of which were donated by the enemy. Sailing the wrong way through the Panama Canal

Panama Canal

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 and becoming the only captain of an icebreaker

Icebreaker

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 in the South Seas

Southern Ocean

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 earned him the nickname

Nickname

A nickname is "a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name.", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name....

 "Wrong Way" (an allusion

Allusion

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 to the American pilot Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan

Douglas Corrigan

Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas. He was nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long...

). After receiving a large inheritance

Inheritance

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 from an aunt he purchased and took command of the S.S. Andalusia ("Athabaska" in some shorts). His crew considered mutiny

Mutiny

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 but decided rather to install a dummy control room, so that Peachfuzz would think he was in command, while the crew actually controlled the ship from another location. Unfortunately, Peachfuzz takes a wrong turn. and winds up in the real control room. In another episode Peachfuzz tries to dive overboard to help Rocky save Bullwinkle, but being Peachfuzz he only succeeds in diving up and back onto the ship.

In the Upsidaisium (story arc)

Upsidaisium (story arc)

Upsidaisium is the first story arc from the second season of Rocky and His Friends. With 36 segments it was the second-longest of all Rocky and Bullwinkle story arcs, and concerns Rocky and Bullwinkle's efforts to reclaim Bullwinkle's Uncle's Upsidaisium mine...

 in is revealed that Peachfuzz eventually sailed his ship up Wall Street whereupon, in an effort to get rid of him, his board of directors arranged for him to get a government job counting penguins (Q-2) because "we couldn't find any place further away." However, the secretary, a niece of the captain, mistyped the order and as a result Peachfuzz is made head of G-2, the main spy agency. As the head of G-2 Peachfuzz demonstrates more examples of his usual incompetence is when he tries to confiscate telephone books (because they list his name and telephone number) and sets up dozens of pairs of spies (who only spy on each other!). In "Greenpernt Oogle" it is revealed that, having attacked the Supreme Court Building (thinking they're enemy agents), he is reassigned to the one place felt fit for a man who is wrong all the time: the Weather Bureau.

Peachfuzz's voice was provided by "Disney Legend" Paul Frees

Paul Frees

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. He originally spoke with a high-pitched squawk reminiscent of a stereotypical cartoon parrot

Parrot

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. However, audiences are perhaps more familiar with his later voice, which was based on that of Ed Wynn

Ed Wynn

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.

In addition to appearing in several Rocky & Bullwinkle story arcs, Peachfuzz also appeared in the supporting feature The Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club.